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Individual Works

Many of the individual works listed in the company's performance history are available for touring. The list below is a sample of recent works currently in performing repertory. Choreography by Debra Loewen unless noted otherwise.

Map of Memories
2008
Map of Memories, tells the story of Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Jones Island. Inspired by the lives of Polish, Kaszubian and Eastern European immigrants who founded the Island's fishing village in the 1870s, Map of Memories merges expressive contemporary dance with images and text. Prior to the evening performances, Milwaukee historian and author John Gurda will reveal the island's journey from thriving fishing village to harbor hub.

“Map of Memories engages moment by moment, and the moments add up... ... Compelling and dazzling... a beautiful and lyrical show.”
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Luminitza
2002
Premiered at the Dance Milwaukee Festival, Luminitza showcases the company’s versatility and physicality.  Shifting perspectives and connections among dancers suggest urgency and longing as relationships form and disappear.

“…wide-open physicality, coupled with sophisticated rhythm…”
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

(More) Abstract Concrete
2001
Choreography: Séan Curran
"dazzles with clarity"
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Disturbing the Peace
1991
"…a square dance of loneliness, sexual tension and frustration…This form gives our little human hurts an elegiac beauty, even grandeur."
- Milwaukee Journal